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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 18, 2016

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Co-founder of Hamas military wing issues startling apology to Palestinians

Muhammad Nazami Nasser sorry for ‘destruction’ caused to his people by his group, which he indicates he now considers ‘the devil’; expresses no regret to Israel

Liberman unveils ‘carrot and stick’ policy to combat terror, weaken Abbas

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF troops arrest 5, seize weaponry in West Bank raids

Israel hands over body of Palestinian terrorist for burial

By Tamar Pileggi

Jews from Poland and abroad gather for commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of a massacre of Jews in Jedwabne, Poland, on July 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Michal Kosc)

Is new Polish law an attempt to whitewash its citizens’ roles in the Holocaust?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Some experts worry that legislation which criminalizes talk of ‘Polish death camps’ places emphasis on one aspect of World War II history while suppressing country’s dark past

Former prime minister Ehud Barak speaks at a conference for the Darkenu organization in Rishon Lezion on August 17, 2016. (Neri Lider)

Live updates (closed)

Hundreds protest in Tel Aviv over soaring housing costs

Demonstration comes day after government report finds 13-percent rise in apartment prices in the city since last year

Egyptian TV host Khadija Khatab (YouTube screenshot)

Aggressive downsizing

Egypt TV suspends ‘overweight’ female hosts

Eight presenters told they must diet and restore ‘appropriate appearance,’ causing local outcry

Starring Jack Huston as Judah Ben-Hur, this is the fifth film adaptation of the 1880 novel 'Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ' by Lew Wallace. (courtesy Paramount Pictures)

Film review

2016 ‘Ben-Hur’ may be about a Jew, but there’s not much Jewish about it

By Jordan Hoffman

New version of 1880 novel is mix of faith-based schmaltz and action razzle-dazzle, with a touch of something unexpected: a little bit of smarts

New ‘Ben-Hur’ stands in shadow of William Wyler’s 1959 epic original

Malka Simkovich

She works hard for the money

Forget about Orthodox women rabbis (and what they should be called) for now; let’s talk equal and transparent pay

Goodbye, Daniel Josefsohn

The bad-boy photographer who died this week found a visual language to address the tense Germans-Jewish relationship

Tim Kaine: Good for Israel, Jewish values

Hillary Clinton’s VP pick champions justice, knows the Mideast, and fully understands the Iranian threat

In this frame grab taken from video provided by the Syrian anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), a child sits in an ambulance after being pulled out or a building hit by an airstirke, in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016. (Aleppo Media Center via AP)

Haunting image shows Syrian boy rescued from Aleppo rubble

By Zeina Karam and PHILIP ISSA

Picture of injured 5-year-old after devastating airstrike on rebel strongholds widely shared on social media as symbol of tragedy

In this Saturday, Sept. 1, 2012, file photo, Syrian prisoners sit in a courtroom before their release in Damascus, Syria. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi, File)

More than 17,000 killed in Syrian state jails — Amnesty

By AP

An undated image of the late al-Qaeda terrorist Osama bin Laden and his son, Hamza. (YouTube screenshot)

Bin Laden’s son urges overthrow of Saudi rulers

By AFP

Offspring of al-Qaeda founder calls for fighters to join Yemen-based branch of terror group, free themselves from US control

Anwar Burqan, an 8-year-old Palestinian whose bicycle was destroyed by two border guards in Hebron, tries out a new bicycle purchased for her by an Israeli man on August 17, 2016. (Lonny Baskin)

Israeli buys Palestinian girl a new bike after border guards broke hers

By Judah Ari Gross

Sami Jolles says he felt prompted to help because incident reminded him of anti-Semitic encounter his father suffered in 1920s

Security camera footage that appears to show soldiers in a military jeep throwing a smoke grenade at Palestinian men sitting outside a store in Kafr Laqif in the northern West Bank on August 15, 2016. (Screen capture: Ramallah News)

3 IDF soldiers disciplined for tossing smoke grenade at Palestinians

By Judah Ari Gross

Former prime minister Ehud Barak speaks at a conference for the Darkenu organization in Rishon Lezion on August 17, 2016. (Neri Lider)

Barak slams PM for bungling US ties, ‘directing discourse of hatred’

By Judah Ari Gross

Former defense minister says Israel would have received more in military aid, if not for Netanyahu’s attempts to meddle in American affairs

Florida State Sen. Dwight Bullard, wearing a Palestinian kaffiyeh, or headscarf, at the Democratic National Convention, July 2016. (Ben Sales)

In linking Black Lives Matter with Palestinians, Miami lawmaker riles pro-Israel activists

Organizers plan protest against Dwight Bullard after May trip to West Bank included tour led by PFLP-affiliated guide, meeting with BDS founder

Screen shot of Halal Binary Options website that advertises fake "Islamic" binary options trading platforms.

You’re a good Muslim? No problem, we’ve got Islamic binary options accounts

Financial websites aim to persuade religious Muslims that binary options trading platforms are halal

From left to right: Raz Hershko, Andrey Tsaryuk, David Albrdian, Oren Shabat Laurent, Sivan Laurent Shabat, Linoy Ashram and Yuval Freilich (Photo Courtesy Olympic Committee of Israel)

Israel Olympic Committee takes sponsorship cash from binary options millionaire

By Simona Weinglass

Oren Shabat Laurent, whose Banc de Binary was fined by the US and appears on other countries’ watchlists, finances scholarship for 5 Olympic hopefuls

2016 Repair the World Fellows in front of their Crown Heights headquarters. (Repair the World/ via JTA)

A changing Crown Heights marks 25 years since Brooklyn ‘pogrom’

By Debra Nussbaum Cohen

The cover of a new Russian translation of the Talmud. (Courtesy of Knizhniki publishing house via JTA)

Once a prop for anti-Semites, the Talmud makes a comeback in Russia

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Tel Aviv based Museloop's App (Courtesy)

Israeli startup brings tech to museums for fun & games

By Shoshanna Solomon

Tempt your kids to search for art, not Pokemon, at some of the country’s premier institutions with the Museloop app

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Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana at the Republican Jewish Coalition spring leadership meeting in Las Vegas, April 25, 2015. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Mike Pence, guardian of Jewish freedom

By Elliot Bartky and Allon Friedman

Then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the prime minister’s office in Jerusalem, Israel on November 20, 2012. (Avi Ohayon/GPO via Getty Images)

AnalysisThis year’s Hillary Clinton is last year’s Benjamin Netanyahu

Illustrative wedding photo. (JTA)

Young Israelis in no hurry to get married, new data shows

The Hasidic makers of Beach Gal bikinis say their line of work doesn’t break Jewish laws, but they aren’t 'shouting it in the halls.' (Screenshot from Instagram)

Bekishes to bikinisHow 2 Hasidic Jews created a trendy new bikini brand

By Gabe Friedman

Taj Patterson was allegedly beaten by a group of Hasidic Jews, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 2013. (YouTube screen capture)

2 Brooklyn Jews sentenced for assaulting gay black man

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara seen with Israeli judokas and Olympic medalists Ori Sasson and Yarden Gerbi during a meeting with sport's delegation to the 2016 Rio Olympics Games, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, August 17, 2016. (Amit Shabi/Pool)

Full of praise, Netanyahu meets Israel’s Olympic judokas

Celtic fans display Palestinian flags during match with Hapoel Beersheba in Glasgow, August 17, 2016. (Screenshot)

Flag movementCeltic fans fly Palestinian flags during Hapoel match

Jewish indie rocker Ezra Furman. (Phil Sharp)

Indie rocker shares new song about Jewish refugee grandfather

By JTA

Late Israeli composer Nahum Heiman seen during a July 2013 interview. (screen capture: Channel 2)

Iconic Israeli composer Nachum Heiman dies aged 82

In this May 22, 2008, photo, actress Ali MacGraw and director Arthur Hiller appear at an event honoring former Paramount Studios chief Robert Evans at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, California (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

Arthur Hiller, versatile director of ‘Love Story,’ dies at 92

By AP and ToI Staff

Ein Avdat in the Zin Valley in the Negev is almost as devoid of content as August in the Israeli media. (CC BY-SA 3.0 Wikipedia/Godot13)

Hebrew media reviewSinging a song of summer

By Raoul Wootliff

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